Infant oral thrush!!

"Mouth pain pain..."

Opps! We discovered that Isaac has been infected with infant oral thrush!!

No wonder the normally huge appetite baby was struggling with his bottle feed over the past few days...the bottle tit must have made suckling very painful when one has a mouth full of uncomfortable white fungal!

Despite all the discomfort, Isaac was still incredibly good nature...readily dispensing his huge smiles, and only crying when it was around feeding time or during the nights when he can't seem to sleep well.

Thankfully, his condition was discovered by Sze's mum when she was babysitting him. Shocked at the sight of the white thrush in his mouth (which looked like giant mashes of beancurds!), she quickly alerted us. In the end, YL's dad fetched her and Isaac to the doc. Isaac was prescribed Daktarine Oral Gel (orange flavour for infants!!). It was quite a funny sight when the cream was first applied to a visibly distressed Isaac. Suddenly, his teary eyes widened after tasting the gel in his mouth, broke out into a huge smile and proceeded to lick around his lips, seemingly to say "yum yum!!" He kept staring at that tube of cream thereafter, as if to plead for more of the cream to relief his pain. :)

Well, just wanna' give thanks that the cream seems to have worked wonders, and Isaac is now on the road to full recovery! :)